The Dalles River Trail

Today we biked the River Trail along the Columbia River and it was very windy. The Columbia Gorge Discovery Center is at the west end of the trail. Since Karen wanted to go through this museum, we drove up there after the bike ride together. She went to the museum, and I rode from there […]

Mount Hood

Today we drove from Bend to The Dalles by way of Mount Hood. We went off on the old Barlow Road and hunted the cache at Pioneer Lady on the Barlow. This is the gravesite of an unknown pioneer woman who was traveling the last part of the Oregon Trail over some of the roughest […]

Spark’s Lake

One of our favorite hikes in the Bend area is the trail to Green Lakes at the base of South Sister. We hiked in about a mile until the snow began to get pretty rough to walk on and then decided we’d try something else.

That something else was a series of caches in […]